Word: distruster
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...ranks new perks. He has traditionally stocked the post exchanges with ample and affordable consumer goods and protected the pay of enlisted men against U.S. economic sanctions. But as the angry general now wreaks revenge on his military foes, he runs the danger of straining the old loyalties. The distrust, hatred and fear injected into the army are a potentially combustible...
...China and most of the nations of Southeast Asia consider Hun Sen a usurper. The Prime Minister is a reminder of Viet Nam's expansionist impulse, which has earned Hanoi distrust and fear throughout the region for centuries. China, which continues to arm the Khmer Rouge, is not alone in refusing to allow Viet Nam to win through political means what it failed to achieve militarily. Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore says that Hun Sen must legitimize his rule in a free election. "Any other way of leaving Hun Sen in charge," says Lee, "would mean that aggression...
...Asian corporations. "Japanese managers work ten-to-twelve-hour days, then socialize until midnight," says James Lincoln, professor of international business at the University of California, Berkeley. "A lot of serious business is done, which cuts out the American manager and stirs up residual feelings of hurt and distrust...
...coup in Munich; when it failed, the instigators were imprisoned. Here at last was the longed-for martyrdom, and Hitler seized it. Up to now, events had formed the leader: Germany's humiliating loss of the Great War, the Allies' insistence on reparations, the monstrous inflation, the centuries-old distrust of Jewish professionals and merchants. From here on, the leader would create the events...
...power. In a seeming capitulation to the young, however, the party agreed at week's end to leave the selection of a new leader to a party vote, rather than the back-room politicking that gave rise to leaders like Uno. "Our defeat was caused by the public's distrust of us," said party elder Takami Eto. "We must now rebuild that trust by operating more in the open...